Saturday, March 07, 2009
Somebody finally tells Sean Penn to zip it
Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso says what nobody else is willing to -- that the glitterati who legitimize Hugo Chavez do not know what they are talking about.
The saccharine conventions of showbusiness were thrown out of the window last week, when the Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso was collared by paparazzi and asked if she was pleased about her former co-star Sean Penn's recent Oscar victory.
"He's an amazing actor. I can't take that away from him," she said of Penn, who worked with her on the 1988 cop film Colors. "It's just that he has no clue at all what's going on in Venezuela. He's been praising Hugo Chavez, who is a dictator and a killer. He should shut up about what he doesn't know." Alonso, who was raised in Venezuela, was apparently upset by a glowing article that Penn had written for The Nation magazine about her homeland's charismatic but increasingly dictatorial left-wing President....
Other Hollywood liberals face public criticism, most notably Oliver Stone, currently filming an adulatory authorised biopic of Mr Chavez. Stone could be joined in the pillory by Danny Glover, who was given $18m by Mr Chavez in 2006 to make a left-leaning film about Haiti's 19th-century leader, Toussaint Louverture. Harry Belafonte sparked outrage two years ago when he appeared on a platform with Mr Chavez to call George Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world".
Hollywood, from the outside, is a very strange place, where a statement of the self-evident is newsworthy around the world.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Mar 07, 10:29:00 PM:
I'd bet she's still a Democrat, despite her drubbing of Chavez and Penn.
By 
CarmelaMotto, at
Sat Mar 07, 11:58:00 PM:
Randian - who cares if she's a democrat as long as she's truthful.
Just watched Roger Simon and Lionel Chetwynd's chat about Annette Benning and Authrie (I know I am getting it wrong) Woodward's trip to Iran sponsored by the Academy. Hollywood can't tell us enough how the USA sucks, and Penn himself talking about the shame people who in CA who supported Prop A should feel, yet they RUN to "open bridges" with Iran who regularly hangs homosexuals and stones women who are adulterous (which often translates into raped by someone other than her husband).
I say, good for Maria Conchita Alonso for speaking out against the willful blindness of Hollywood, democrat or not.
By , at
Sun Mar 08, 12:34:00 AM:
I hope Ms. Alonso does not have trouble finding work. Many Liberals tend to be ... stuffy ... about people who disagree with accepted Liberal dogma.
By Anthony, at
Sun Mar 08, 03:59:00 AM:
Maria was always hot, and I'm glad to see she has her head on straight.
By , at
Sun Mar 08, 05:04:00 AM:
Randian - who cares if she's a democrat as long as she's truthful.
Because I've met plenty of Democrats who criticize people like Chavez but still want to implement the socialism that enables their reign of terror. They believe in the fallacy of having "the right people" in charge.
By , at
Sun Mar 08, 09:47:00 AM:
That's whats most frustrating. They really do believe it's the people, not the ideology.
By MTF, at
Sun Mar 08, 12:49:00 PM:
In the annals of Bad Cinema, there's probably a whole chapter on The Running Man, a great bad movie for our times. In it, the Governator (before he went over to the dark side) fought off the propaganda of MSM (in the person of the game show host Richard Dawson), and the tyranny of the Justice Department and the administration, in order to break through to the downtrodden people and revive the country. The female lead in this classic was played our heroine (in a form fitting suit), Maria Conchita Alonso, and she and the Governator fought to victory alongside such stalwarts as Mick Fleetwood and Dweezil Zappa. I kid you not- it was a great bad movie.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun Mar 08, 01:39:00 PM:
With very few exceptions, American actors in Hollywood have little knowledge of world affairs.
My first day on a movie set was fun. My second day on the set was the most boring day in my life.
(Note: I'm a businessman, not an actor.)
By Paralegal 4 Immigration, at
Sun Mar 08, 09:36:00 PM:
Back in 1956 -57 when I was a young sailor stationed in Puerto Rico the CIA and the July 26th Movement were active and trying their best to enlist US Servicemen to join Castro’s forces in the eastern Cuba. As I recall now some 50 years later I believe Marine joined. The offer was an Honorable Discharge, $1,000 USD pay per month and a commission in the revolutionary army to fight for the great Comandante en Jefe and his Jefferson libertarian and the immortal "Che" Guevara who beat his prisoners with a baseball bat.
